If you're using a local login then adding that line to the global configuration shouldn't hurt anything. But if you're not getting anything over the regular console port I'm wondering if we should take a step back and actually look at your PuTTy sett...
Yeah, I've seen historically that beyond simple tunnels (ie no encryption, only spokes on dmvpn tunnels) you're better off using a router because you'll throw 100 commands in and one won't work but you won't know which one.